NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS & DEVICESAfter receiving his doctorate from the University of Maryland at College Park, Nikhil Koratkar joined the faculty of the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in January 2001 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to Full Professor in 2008.
Professor Koratkar is a winner of the NSF CAREER Award and has over 50 archival journal publications in top nanoscience journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials and Small. He has obtained over $5 Million in research grants from several agencies including NSF, ONR, ARO, Benet Labs and Industry.
Professor Koratkar's research interests are focused on Graphene and Carbon Nanotube synthesis and their integration into polymer based composites. His group also works on the fabrication and patterning of metal and Si based nanostructures by oblique angle deposition and their application in energy conversion and storage devices.
Other key areas of resrearch include development of nanoscale devices including sensors, actuators and membranes. Koratkar's group is also actively engaged in understanding wetting and electro-wetting phenomena at the micro and nano scales and in the development of super-hydrophobic/super-hydrophilic surfaces and phase change phenomena at the small scales.
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